C# Programming Tutorials

LINQ is Microsoft’s latest data access technology. LINQ stands for language integrated query and it can be leverage to execute complex queries in a simple and more understandable manner. LINQ provides diverse query execution functions with the help of special methods that are known as query...

If you are beginner to LINQ, I will suggest you to first read Introduction to LINQ. However, if you have read that article or have some basic understanding of LINQ queries and lambda expressions, you can carry on with this article. In this article, I am going to explain you some more advanced LINQ...

LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is arguable one of the most astonishing features of the .NET framework. If you have slightest idea of database programming, you must have written SQL queries. Something like “Select * Name From Customers”. This line was actually used to get names of all the...

In my recent articles, I have been walking you through some of the most commonly used types and interfaces that play integral role in storing collection of items. We have previously studied Lists, Stacks, Queues and other collections. I have also explained Array class and its usage in one of my...

The array is one of those data structures which have been in use since the advent of the programming languages. Be it C, C++, Java, PHP or any other web-based, desktop or mobile application development, you will find an array data structure to hold records of data. Syntax may be different but the...

In almost every software application, you need to handle a list of data of any type. The list can contain, users registered on the website, the list of items purchased by the user or the list of items that have been sold and so on and so forth. In order to handle lists of data we have data...

In my last article, I explained, how can we iterate upon a collection to traverse or enumerate its items using the IEnumerable and IEnumerator interfaces along with their generic conterparts. However, those interfaces have some limitations, for instance we could only traverse the collection in...

.NET framework provides wide range of namespaces that contain types, interfaces and structs which can be used to store, manage, and sort collections of data. These types include, lists, arrays, linked list and sorted as well as unsorted dictionaries. The types of collections available in .NET...

In addition to string, another extremely important entity that lays at the foundation of any software application is the numbers. Numbers play a very crucial role, particularly in the business logic layer of any software application. Logic building requires strong knowledge of numbers and their...

Any software application, two of the most frequently done tasks are formatting and parsing the data. In simplest words, formatting refers to the process of converting some type to string and conversely parsing refers to converting string into some other data type. There are several techniques that...

One of the most important modules of a software application is the module that implements time and date management functionality. Time and dates are an integral part of any application be it a desktop based application, a web based application or a mobile application. Consider a scenario, where you...

Strings are an integral part of any programming language. In almost every programming language you would find strings of data being passed as input and being displayed as input. Strings are an important way to interact with the user.
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Most of the .NET functionalities are provided via managed types. These managed types are organized in hierarchical namespaces. .NET framework contains thousands of types and the number is prospering with every passing day as more and more developers are contributing towards expanding the language...

.NET framework has everything what it takes to develop a highly customizable software application. Apart from providing thousands of built in classes in language library and common language runtime, .NET offers variety of options during code compilation. Using visual studio you can access those...

C# is a language that integrates useful concepts from several programming languages. C# contains advanced features of Java and provided C++’s robustness. The concept of pointer is integral in C and other low level languages. However, C# also allows you to utilize the power of pointers in your code...

C# is a strongly typed language: You might have heard this sentence numerous times. Have you ever wondered, what does that actually mean? We are here with the answer to this question and we would introduce to another fairly advanced and extremely interesting .NET concept, known as dynamic binding....

In this article, we are going to explore a couple of fairly advanced C# concepts. We will start by explaining the concept of extension methods in C#. I will explain you with the help of examples, what basically extension methods are, how they are actually used and what its benefits are. Next, we...

Operator overloading is one of the most fascinating and interesting object oriented programing concept which was first integrated in C++ language. As we know that C# integrates the robustness of C++ with delicacies of Java; therefore it has also inherited the concept of operator overloading from...

A lambda expression is basically an unnamed method which is used in place of delegate instance. Lambda expressions are also some times called inline delegates and they are mostly used with delegates. Anonymous methods can be represented in a more concise way using these lambda expressions. Lambda...

C# owes Java a lot: In terms of features and compilation strategy C# is very similar to Java. As a matter of fact, C# was developed with intent to compete Java. However, platform dependence and less portability of C# give Java edge over C#, Interfaces are one of the many features that C# inherited...